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Envelope 1 – Wills and Inventories

(Note - those wills that have inventories attached are highlighted below with an *)

  • B1
    • Richard Kirke (1659)
    • Richard Hobson (1673)
    • Christopher Kirke (1680)
    • Isabella Waite (1689/90) *
    • John Oddy (1697) *
    • Thomas Harper (1716) *
    • William Nicholson (1723) *
    • John Driver (1728) *
    • William Oddy (1730) *
    • George Wood (1734) *
    • John Smith (1745)
    • Christopher Kirke (1763)
    • Samuel Ingman (1789)
    • William Hobson (1807)
    • William Hobson (1818)
    • Benjamin Hobson (1826)
    • Inventories without wills - William Wilson (1718), Francis Harper (1727) Joseph Padgett (1767)
  • B2
    • Richard Arkdale (1590)
    • Robert Roger (1549)
    • Richard Wood (1568)
  • B4
    • William Clough (1707) *
    • John Midgeley (1691/2) *
    • Samuel Wetherill (1717) *
    • Andrew Scatchard (1725) *
  • B5
    • Tobias Furnish (1692/3) *
    • Susanna Wood (1725) *
  • B6
    • Richard Kirk (1613)
  • B7
    • Joe Broadbelt (1720) *
    • William Waite (1629)
  • B8
    • Robert Moyser (1690) *
    • Solomon Swale (1699) *
    • Henry Portington (1709) *
    • John Brookbank (1720) *
    • Eliza Scott (1708) *
    • Thomas England (1734) *
    • Robert Mitchell (1663) *


Envelope 2 – Documents for the church display at Cookridge Methodist church
  • Doomsday record: Adel
  • Letter and ‘translation’ written by Thomas Kirk of Cookridge Hall 17th cent.
  • Will of George Wood 1734 (blacksmith)
  • Part of valuation of Cookridge estate (1807)
  • Turnpike records (1828)
Envelope 3 – Manor House, Adel Envelope 4 – Arthington nunnery Envelope 5 – ‘Interference from People that Don’t Know Sod All’: A Twentieth Century Oral History Study of Farmers’ Experiences with Outside Bodies in Lower Wharfdale, Yorkshire, by Jane Rowling. (MA English Local History, University of Leicester, 2011). Envelope 6 – Leake Family Tree of Bankside Farm and Hird Farm Envelope 7 – Thomas Arthington’s Estate (1796) Envelope 8 – Agricultural Reports
  • Map of Arthington map (1849)
  • Creskeld Estate (1988)
  • Will of Richard Wardman (nunnery) (1559)
  • Plans of Wood Top Farm
Envelope 9 – O.S maps of Adel, Arthington, Cookridge and Eccup (1851-1909) Envelope ten – Estate maps, various, for Adel Arthington, Cookridge and Eccup. Including:
  • A plan by Johnathan Taylor (1804)
  • A plan of an estate situate in the parishes of Addle and Harewood by Jonathan Taylor
  • A plan of the Cookridge estate by W. F. Wormald (1906)
  • Terrier map of Adel rectory
  • Tithe map (1849)
  • Thomas Jeffery’s map (1770)
Envelope 11 – maps from Church display of Adel, Arthington, Cookridge and Eccup (1722-1988)

Envelope 12 – assorted archival material
  • Naylor family records from Adel registers (1607-1809)
    • Tax records for Jacob Naylor (1777)
    • Tax records for John Naylor (1807)
  • The landscape of Cookridge and Tinshill recreated by Don Cole (1660)
    • Cup and ring marks in Gab Wsood
    • Moseley Wood, Mr Kirke’s creation in the 17th century
  • Lawns Wood – It’s all in the Name, research and reminiscences by Don Cole
  • Plans and conditions of the sale of the Cookridge Estate (including Cookridge Hall), 20th April 1919
  • Arthington during the 1939-45 War: excerpts from Parish Council minutes
  • Arthington Grange – a short history of the farm and some of its tenants
  • Life in Cookridge Towers, memories of Hicks and Binns
  • Extract from the codicil annexed to the will of Robert Jackson (1730)
  • Don Cole’s sketch books of various stone pillars in Adel, Arthington, Cookridge and Eccup
  • Deed: - Dade to Stanhope re: Moseley (1678)
  • Lease Thomas Arthington to John Craven (1754)
  • Marriage settlement: - Dade to Stanhope/ T. Kirke (1652)
  • Compensation paid relating to Halfway Farm (1954)
  • Cookridge Hall management (Nov. 1955)
  • Creskeld Estate (Feb. 1988)
  • Sale details of Dacre, Son & Hartley, relating to the sale of Park Cottage South, Arthington Lane, Arthington
  • Adel Mill: - details of some of the early tenants (1540-1848)
  • Extracts from Eccup School logbook (1889, 1894, 1894 and 1904)
  • A rough plan of High Farm Buildings (as they were when Don and Sheila Cole were there)
  • Lease of Glebe at Eccup (1737/8)
  • Plan of Leeds produced and published by ‘Geographia’ (no date, circa 1920?)






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